Addison, John

From Lane Co Oregon

A Civil War veteran from Illinois, John Addison (1844-1928) came to Oregon in 1884. He bought a lumber mill in Creswell, which he disassembled and rebuilt in Lorane. The roads were so bad that the mill could operate only three or four months of the year, so Addison built miles of wooden “plank roads” — complete with high wooden trestles — to roll or drag logs from the wilderness to the mill ponds. Addison and his wife, Nancy Seward Addison, had twelve children, and the family business stayed in the Lorane area until 1945.

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